Culture
"Allen… Did you know…?" Lavi asks in the afterglow, inhaling the scent of the sin they have committed.
Allen moves his head from Lavi's shoulder and his hand stops tracing the red heads collar bone. He places his head in his hand, lies on his stomach and smiles towards Lavi, "Do I know what?"
"Did you know that homosexuality was practiced openly in ancient cultures?" Lavi rushes the sentence out waiting for the rise of an eyebrow before continuing. "In Ancient Greece an older man would often take a younger male and make him his lover," Lavi grins, the expression half lost in the dazed look that glazes his eye. "The older man would act like a mentor and in Athens he would be called the Erastes - the younger male would be called the Eromenos. They found mutual advantages in each other. The Erastes acting as an example of what the younger male should be, the Eromenos providing youth and a somewhat shaky legacy." He breathes out a chuckle, "Good thing me and the old panda were not around then, right?"
Allen nods, knowing better than to cut off Lavi before he is finished. Before the reason as to why they are talking about pederasty surfaces.
"We would still be frowned upon though… our age gap would have been too small and I wouldn't be a very good Erastes. I feel as though I am learning more from you than you are from me, at times. It would have been highly unconventional." What is left unsaid - Like our relationship at the moment - rests in the air unspoken, as it always has been and always will.
Lavi's head lulls to the side and his eyes clear a tad, looking at Allen: Taking in everything that makes Allen who he is, from the pink tint of his lips to the scar marring his face and finally his eyes that have carried so many emotions, that hold so many more that he is scared he will never finish recording them all.
The eyes that are now alight and accompanied by a light frown that Lavi has only just recently discovered happens when Allen is beyond reasoning and determined to fix everything that he can with the hands that have been given to him.
It is that look and the sheer will that lies behind it that is going to kill him in the end, Lavi can tell.
Allen breaks into Lavi's thoughts, smiling a smile that is as happy as it is sad. Simply accepting.
"It is always going to be you and me against the world," he states, his head bobbing as his jaw moves against his hands.
The sad thing about this story is that I am a yullen fan T_T;;